Democracy and the politics of the extraordinary : Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Hannah Arendt / Andreas Kalyvas.

By: Kalyvas, Andreas, 1967-Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008Description: x, 326 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780521877688 (hardback); 0521877687 (hardback)Subject(s): Democracy | Pak Organization of Workers in Educational Research | Political science -- Philosophy | Weber, Max, 1864-1920 -- Political and social views | Schmitt, Carl, 1888-1985 -- Political and social views | Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975 -- Political and social viewsDDC classification: 321.8 LOC classification: JC421 | .K35 2008Online resources: Publisher description | Table of contents only
Contents:
Charismatic politics and the symbolic foundations of power : Max Weber -- Revisiting Weber's concept of the political -- Charismatic politics -- Disavowing charismatic politics -- The exception and constitutional politics : Carl Schmitt -- The popular constituent sovereign and the pure theory of democratic legitimacy -- Toward a theory of democratic constitutionalism -- The extra-institutional sovereign -- Taming the extraordinary : Hannah Arendt -- Extraordinary beginnings I : Arendt's critique of Schmitt -- Extraordinary beginnings II : Arendt's response to Schmitt -- The republic of councils : beyond democracy and liberalism? -- Conclusion: A democratic theory of the extraordinary.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-319) and index.

Charismatic politics and the symbolic foundations of power : Max Weber -- Revisiting Weber's concept of the political -- Charismatic politics -- Disavowing charismatic politics -- The exception and constitutional politics : Carl Schmitt -- The popular constituent sovereign and the pure theory of democratic legitimacy -- Toward a theory of democratic constitutionalism -- The extra-institutional sovereign -- Taming the extraordinary : Hannah Arendt -- Extraordinary beginnings I : Arendt's critique of Schmitt -- Extraordinary beginnings II : Arendt's response to Schmitt -- The republic of councils : beyond democracy and liberalism? -- Conclusion: A democratic theory of the extraordinary.

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